Majocchi Antonio

Antonio Majocchi is an Associate Professor of International Business and Management at the Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia. He has spent his entire professional career as a full time researcher in the fields of international business and international management. Since completing his PhD thesis in 1996, his main research interests have been firms’ internationalisation strategies, international marketing, the effects of fiscal policy on firms’ behaviour, SME performance drivers and the internationalisation strategies of European firms within the process of European integration. He has carried out research activities with leading Italian firms and banks and with international institutions (OECD, LEED program and the European Commission). He is currently a member of the Governing body of the Musing Project: Risk management Business intelligence and Internationalisation (EU Commission, Sixth framework program Information Society).

1991 July
Degree in Economics, University of Studi di Pavia. Graduation thesis: “The international funding of European local authorities. New perspectives in the framework of the EMU”. Graduated cum laude.

1992 September – 2005
Secretary General, Italian section of the European Community Study Association (ECSA -Italy).

1992 September – 1996 November
PH. D. in Business Economics and Management science, “L. Bocconi” University, Milan. Title of thesis: “Economic theories and international firm strategies”.

1994 December –1996 December
Lecturer in Business Management, Faculty of Economics, Insubria University, Varese .

1995 -2002
Lecturer in “International Banking and Finance” for International Finance Masters organized by the Fondazione Giordano Dell’Amore Milan (June – October). Visiting scholar at the University of Reading (U.K.), Department of Economics.

1996 September-present
Member of the Editorial Board of the “European Union Review”.

1996 – present
Member of the Academy of International Business.

1996 May –1997 February
Member of the OECD research group on ‘Internationalisation strategies by Italian
industrial districts: the case of SMEs in Romania’.

1996 – present
Lecturer for Masters programs in International Finance and Co-operation and Development, University of Pavia, IUSS, Pavia.

2005 January – present
Associate Professor in International Business – University of Pavia
Director of the Research Centre of the Faculty of Economics CIBIE (Centre for
International Business and the International Economy).

International Business Review, International Small Business Journal and European Union Review;
Academy of International Business World Conference, EIBA annual conference.

Membership

Member of the Academy of International Business (AIB), European Community Studies. Association (ECSA), Secretary General of AUSE (ECSA-Italy), European International Business Academy (EIBA), Member of the Editorial Board of the European Union Review.

Grants & Projects

Member of the Governing body of the Musing Project “Risk management, Business intelligence and Internationalisation” (EU Commission, Sixth framework program Information Society).

Scientific coordinator of the “European Union toward enlargement: integration maturity and
adjustments of acceding and non acceding countries of Central and Eastern Europe” ECSA-Italy research project, supported by the EU Commission (Agreement n. 2003-0249).
“Italian firms in the PECO CEEC= OPEC? countries”, Research project co-ordinated by the Insubria University, in co-operation with the universities of Prague, Budapest, Poznam, Timisoara and Maribor.

Member of “An analysis of SME investment in Romania” CNR project n. 99. research group.